STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Generate a properties.xml file with a number of empty values and make one of them numeric...
EG:
<property id="other1Encode" type="number" />
Then try to compile...
ACTUAL RESULTS
Compiler fails with a not very helpful "ZERO LENGTH STRING" message that could, frankly, refer to almost anything almost anywhere... resulting in tedium, hair-pulling, frustration and eventual line-by-line analysis of previous morning's work until the error is located.
EXPECTED RESULTS
Compiler should either:
a) Give a helpful error message like "You need to specify a default value for property ID."
b) Decide that an empty string is equivalent to 0.
